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Latent carcinoma of the thyroid manifested by cystic supraclavicular metastasis
J Yoshida1, M Nakagawa, K Yokohata
1Department of Surgery, Wakamatsu Municipal Hospital, Kitakyushu.
Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
In a 68-year-old Japanese woman, who had a right supraclavicular cyst containing thyroglobulin-rich fluid, metastatic adenocarcinoma was demonstrated in the cyst. A subsequent total thyroidectomy showed a papillary carcinoma measuring 11 mm in the ipsilateral lobe of the thyroid. A high thyroglobulin level in a cervical cyst may facilitate the detection of hidden primary cancer in the thyroid.